Valiant boosted by ex BP staffers

London-listed Valiant Petroleum has boosted its boardroom expertise with the appointment of two former BP executives.

Valiant has announced the appointment of Stephen Horton, a former worldwide director of drilling at BP, and Dr Philip Vingoe, a geophysicist, who worked for BP for 20 years.

Horton, who has extensive experiences in the UK North Sea E&P sector, is currently on the board of another Alternative Investment Market company listed in London, Leni Oil and Gas. He was a co-founder of Silverstone Energy, and is a technical adviser to a mining company.

Dr Vingoe has worked for Novus Petroleum, Sasol Petroleum, and was a co-founder of Pan-Petroleum which merged with Norse Energy do Brasil to become Panoro Energy, of which he is now chairman, and he sits on the board of Petro Matad. Previously he was a director of Pan-Ocean Energy before it was sold to Addax in 2006.